80 % of eligible voters are registered in South Africa

A record 25.3 million South Africans are registered and ready to vote in the 2014 national and provincial elections following a highly successful final registration weekend which saw 1 259 560 new voters registering.

The new registrations lifted the overall registration level to 80.5 percent of all eligible voters today.

Combined with the 1.1 million new voters who registered for the first time in November, some 2.3 million new voters will have been added onto voters’ roll for the first time since 8 November 2013.

Encouragingly, 79.89 percent of all new registrations this weekend – or 1 006 260 – are voters under the age of 30. This included:

691 002 voters aged 20 – 29

255 398 voters aged 18 and 19

59 860 voters aged 16 and 17

A further 1.48 million registered voters also used the weekend opportunity to change their new voting station.

In terms of new registrations, the following are the provincial totals: